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Graduate Programs

The Supply Chain Management Career Track of the Walton MBA prepares you for leadership
positions in the fast-growing and fast-moving supply chain field. The PhD program
in Business Administration with a Concentration in Supply Chain Management prepares
individuals for academic careers in research, teaching, and service at universities.

MBA Program

From production to consumption, a company's success hinges on its supply chain. As
a supply chain professional, you will have responsibility for the logistics network
design, inventory management, forecasting, replenishment, and other processes that
integrate supply and demand needs.

Ph.D. Program

Students seeking admission into the doctoral program should have the interest and
commitment to pursue the knowledge and skills necessary for academic careers at leading
universities and institutions, including an intellectual curiosity for both the theoretical
and substantive domains.

Students in the program gain knowledge in the theoretical and substantive areas of
supply chain management and conceptual skills and methodological tools necessary to
design and conduct independent research and interact with others in academic and business
environments.

A research associate professor of supply chain management in the Sam M. Walton College of Business has been honored by the North American Case Research Association for his collaboration with an Arkansas Company—Delta Plastics—to produce a written case study on the introduction of a new product.

Two recent graduates of the supply chain management Ph.D. program at the Sam M. Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas received awards at the annual meeting of the Academy of Management.